“Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.”— John Wesley, en.wikiquote.org
“Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“Every minute you spend with someone gives them a part of your life and takes part of theirs.”— Ally Condie, amazon.com
“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. That’s how it is with us.…”— Kazuo Ishiguro, amazon.com
“Don’t you think I was made for you? I feel like you had me ordered—and I was delivered to you—to be worn. I want you to wear me, like a watch-charm or a hole bouquet—to the world.”— Zelda Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“She felt dangerously powerful, she loved, she knew love, everything else paled.”— Anna Delbee, amazon.com
“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s salvation in life. Even if you can’t get together with that person.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“I observed, "Love is the fulfilling of the law, the end of the commandment." It is not only "the first and great" command, but all the commandments in one. "Whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, if there be any virtue, if there be any praise," they are all comprised in this one wor…”— John Wesley, amazon.com
“She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'...”— Ken Follett, amazon.com
“I'm afraid to love you. I'm afraid that you'll leave and that I'll go back to being alone again. Only it will be a hundred times worse because I'll know what I'm missing. I can't...I want to be able to love you more than I fear losing you, and I don't know how. Teach me...Please teach me. Don't let…”— Mia Sheridan, amazon.com
“Sometimes I hate you, sometimes I hate myself, but always I miss you.”— David Henry Hwang, amazon.com
“In this world, it is too common for people to search for someone to lose themselves in. But I am already lost. I will look for someone to find myself in.”— C. Joybell C., cjoybellc.blogspot.com
“Some days I miss you so much I’d jump off the roof of your office building just to catch a glimpse of you on the way down.”— Jeffrey MCDaniel, amazon.com